Truth Social Scraper — User Profiles, Posts & Sentiment for Quants & Hedge Funds

A high-performance, cost-effective Apify Actor for scraping Truth Social profiles, posts, media attachments, and engagement metrics.

Built with Crawlee and got-scraping, this Actor uses direct API fast-path querying with automated anti-bot circumvention (TLS fingerprinting, browser header emulation, and optional residential proxy rotation). It extracts full timelines, historical posts, single statuses, and rich account metadata without running bloated headless browser instances.

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

This actor operates on a pay-as-you-go Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for what you extract:

Event Name	Purpose	Price (USD)	Description
apify-default-dataset-item	result	$0.00055	Single result in the default dataset.
apify-actor-start	Actor Start	$0.005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).

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✨ Features & Why It Beats Alternatives

• ⚡ Pure HTTP Fast-Path: Up to 10x faster and uses a fraction of the RAM compared to Playwright or Selenium browser automation.
• 🎯 Deep Profile & Post Extraction: Scrapes status text, timestamps, engagement metrics (reblogs, favorites/upvotes, replies), video/image attachments, mentions, hashtags, and link cards.
• 🔄 Multiple Target Modes:
  • Profile URLs (e.g. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump)
  • Direct Status URLs (e.g. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117345281669990405)
  • Free-text handle or search queries (@realDonaldTrump)
  • Exact Post IDs without needing URLs
• 🎛️ Content Type Filtering: Choose between posts only (excluding replies), profile metadata only, replies only, or combined timelines.
• 📸 Media Filtering: Option to filter for only posts with video, photo, or audio attachments.
• 📅 Incremental & Date Filtering: Scrape posts published after a specific date (YYYY-MM-DD) or status ID (sinceId) for continuous monitoring pipelines.
• 🛡️ Anti-Bot Circumvention: Works seamlessly with Apify Residential Proxies and TLS fingerprinting for high reliability.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	No	["https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump"]	List of target profile URLs or direct post URLs.
searchQuery	String	No	@realDonaldTrump	Username/handle (e.g. @realDonaldTrump) or search term.
contentType	String	No	posts	posts (posts only), profile_details (metadata), replies, or posts_and_replies.
maxItems	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of posts or records to extract.
onlyMedia	Boolean	No	false	When true, only posts with attached images or videos are scraped.
sinceId	String	No	null	Status ID cursor for incremental scraping (skips older posts).
date	String	No	null	Earliest publication date to scrape (YYYY-MM-DD).
includeMuted	Boolean	No	true	Include muted posts or replies.
proxy	Object	No	Residential Proxy	Proxy configuration (Apify Residential Proxy recommended).

Sample JSON Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" }
  ],
  "searchQuery": "@realDonaldTrump",
  "contentType": "posts",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "onlyMedia": false,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

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📤 Output Data Format

Each extracted item in the dataset contains comprehensive details about the post or profile:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Unique numeric status ID or account ID.
authorHandle	String	Handle of the user (e.g. realDonaldTrump).
content	String	HTML / text body of the status post or profile bio.
createdAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp of publication.
reblogsCount	Number	Total number of re-truths (reblogs / retweets).
favoritesCount	Number	Total number of likes / upvotes.
repliesCount	Number	Total number of replies.
url	String	Direct canonical URL to the post or profile.
authorName	String	Display name of the author.
authorId	String	Account ID of the author.
authorAvatar	String	Avatar image URL.
authorHeader	String	Profile banner image URL.
authorFollowersCount	Number	Follower count of the account.
authorVerified	Boolean	Verification badge status.
mediaAttachments	Array	Images, videos, preview thumbnails, and aspect ratios.
tags	Array	Hashtags mentioned in the status.
mentions	Array	Tagged users mentioned in the post.
card	Object	Rich link preview card metadata (if any).
itemType	String	post or profile.
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp when the item was scraped.

Sample JSON Output

{
  "id": "117345281669990405",
  "authorHandle": "realDonaldTrump",
  "content": "<p>A great day for America!</p>",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-27T22:08:20.483Z",
  "reblogsCount": 1320,
  "favoritesCount": 5284,
  "repliesCount": 425,
  "url": "https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117345281669990405",
  "authorName": "Donald J. Trump",
  "authorId": "107780257626128497",
  "authorAvatar": "https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/accounts/avatars/107/780/257/626/128/497/original/454286ac07a6f6e6.jpeg",
  "authorHeader": "https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/accounts/headers/107/780/257/626/128/497/original/ba3b910ba387bf4e.jpeg",
  "authorFollowersCount": 13082442,
  "authorFollowingCount": 69,
  "authorStatusesCount": 36848,
  "authorVerified": true,
  "authorBio": "45th President of the United States of America",
  "mediaAttachments": [
    {
      "id": "117345280658096294",
      "type": "video",
      "url": "https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/345/280/658/096/294/original/0888fddf4fc02f2e.mp4",
      "preview_url": "https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/thumbnails/117/345/280/658/096/294/original/e48680f99c396903.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "mentions": [],
  "card": null,
  "inReplyToId": null,
  "quote": null,
  "reblog": null,
  "visibility": "public",
  "sensitive": false,
  "language": null,
  "itemType": "post",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T00:41:24.237Z"
}

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🏷️ Use Cases & SEO

• Market Research & Sentiment Analysis: Real-time tracking of public sentiment, political discourse, and news events.
• Social Media Monitoring: Continuously monitor specific accounts or keywords for brand mentions and market signals.
• AI & NLP Dataset Generation: Collect clean, structured corpora for training and fine-tuning language models.
• Journalism & Fact-Checking: Archive posts, media, and engagement trends for public record verification.

Tags: truth-social, truth-social-scraper, social-media-scraper, trump-truths, truth-social-api, timeline-scraper, profile-scraper